Brewer's: Bellwether of the Flock

A jocose and rather depreciating term applied to the leader of a party. Of course the allusion is to the wether or sheep which leads the flock with a bell fastened to its neck.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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